Note on the text -- Foreword to the second edition -- Prologue concerning hobbits, and other matters -- Book 1. A long-expected party -- The shadow of the past -- Three is company -- A short cut to mushrooms -- A conspiracy unmasked -- The old forest -- In the house of Tom Bombadil -- Fog on the barrow-downs -- At the sign of the Prancing Pony -- Strider -- A knife in the dark -- Flight to the ford -- Book 2. Many meetings -- The council of Elrond -- The ring goes south -- A journey in the dark -- The bridge of Khazad-dûm -- Lothlórien -- The mirror of Galadriel -- Farewell to Lórien -- The great river -- The breaking of the fellowship.